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Senior IT Architect jobs in Florida are in strong demand, with consistent openings across financial services, healthcare systems, defense contracting, and state government technology modernization initiatives, from senior enterprise architects to principal-level cloud strategists. Miami, Tampa, and Orlando drive the highest volume of postings, anchored by employers such as Lockheed Martin, Chewy, and AdventHealth that maintain major Florida operations. The most sought-after specialties in Florida listings are cloud architecture, cybersecurity integration, and enterprise application modernization. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Date: Oct 29, 2026
Location(s): Juno Beach, FL, US, 33408
Company: NextEra Energy
Requisition ID: 96740
NextEra Energy Resources is one of America’s largest wholesale electricity generators, harnessing diverse energy sources to power progress. We deliver tailored energy solutions that fuel economic growth, strengthen communities, and help customers achieve their energy goals. Ready to make a lasting impact? Take the next step in your career with us!
Position Specific Description
The Principal IT Architect will serve as the senior technical leader for applications and platforms supporting NEET Transmission and NEER Development. This role will partner with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Data Governance, Cloud Infrastructure, business stakeholders, and delivery teams to define and execute technology modernization strategies.
The successful candidate will translate enterprise technology direction into practical roadmaps, reference architectures, engineering standards, and scalable solutions. This individual will lead through technical expertise and influence, guide the organization toward an AI-first future, and establish the architecture, engineering practices, and governance needed to deliver secure, reliable, and production-ready AI-enabled solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Define current-state, target-state, and transition architectures for the NEET Transmission and NEER Development technology portfolios.
Develop and execute modernization roadmaps that improve scalability, reliability, cybersecurity, supportability, and cost efficiency.
Serve as the primary liaison with Enterprise Architecture and ensure portfolio solutions align with enterprise strategies, standards, and approved technology patterns.
Provide architecture leadership for complex initiatives involving transmission planning, interconnection, renewable development, engineering analysis, modeling, analytics, and related business processes.
Lead solution design across application, integration, API, data, cloud, infrastructure, security, machine learning, and generative AI domains.
Establish reusable reference architectures, design patterns, architecture decision records, and technical standards.
Evaluate legacy applications and recommend appropriate rehost, replatform, refactor, replace, rebuild, or retire strategies.
Provide expert guidance for AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform infrastructure architectures, including compute, storage, networking, identity, security, observability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.
Lead the end-to-end architecture and delivery of machine learning and generative AI solutions from use-case evaluation and prototyping through production deployment, monitoring, support, and lifecycle management.
Define scalable patterns for retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, embeddings, multi-agent architectures, model orchestration, tool use, function calling, and enterprise-system integration.
Establish formal AI evaluation and validation practices, including prompt evaluation, model-quality testing, grounding and citation validation, safety guardrails, hallucination mitigation, human-in-the-loop controls, and measurable acceptance criteria.
Establish Responsible AI architecture practices addressing security, privacy, data governance, explainability, auditability, model risk, human accountability, and regulatory requirements.
Advance MLOps and LLMOps practices for model and prompt versioning, deployment, evaluation, monitoring, observability, governance, incident management, and performance optimization.
Guide development teams in the use of AI-assisted engineering, agentic development workflows, and AIDLC practices while establishing appropriate quality gates for AI-generated code, tests, designs, and documentation.
Lead architecture reviews, technical evaluations, proofs of concept, vendor assessments, and build-versus-buy decisions.
Communicate architecture options, risks, costs, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to technical teams, business partners, and senior leadership.
Mentor developers, engineers, architects, and technical leads while providing direction to vendors, consultants, and delivery partners.
Build AI architecture and engineering capability across the team through reusable patterns, technical standards, coaching, demonstrations, and communities of practice.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
10+ years of progressive experience in information technology, software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, application development, or related disciplines.
Demonstrated experience leading architecture for complex enterprise applications, platforms, or modernization programs.
Expert-level knowledge of AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Experience designing secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-effective cloud or hybrid-cloud architectures.
Strong knowledge of application architecture, integration patterns, APIs, data architecture, cybersecurity, and modern software-engineering practices.
Experience developing architecture roadmaps and translating target-state designs into executable delivery plans.
Demonstrated hands-on experience designing and delivering production-grade machine learning and generative AI solutions in an enterprise environment.
Deep understanding of transformer models, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, agent frameworks, multi-agent architectures, and model orchestration.
Hands-on experience with one or more enterprise AI platforms, including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Google Vertex AI, Gemini, Azure OpenAI, or comparable services.
Experience with vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, orchestration layers, enterprise data grounding, and AI observability.
Experience architecting production agent systems using tool integration, function calling, context engineering, enterprise APIs, and controlled access to business systems.
Experience applying MLOps and LLMOps practices, including model, prompt, and configuration versioning; automated evaluation; deployment; monitoring; governance; and lifecycle management.
Experience establishing formal evaluation and validation processes for AI solutions, including prompt evaluation, hallucination mitigation, safety guardrails, quality thresholds, and human validation.
Strong understanding of Responsible AI, AI security, data privacy, model and vendor risk, explainability, auditability, least-privilege access, and human accountability.
Experience integrating AI solutions with enterprise applications, data platforms, APIs, identity services, and cloud infrastructure.
Experience partnering with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Data Governance, Cloud Infrastructure, and other specialized technology teams.
Ability to lead technical teams and influence decisions without direct reporting authority.
Strong business-facing communication, facilitation, and executive-presentation skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in the utility, energy, critical-infrastructure, or another regulated industry.
Experience supporting transmission planning, interconnection, renewable-energy development, engineering, modeling, or analytical platforms.
Demonstrated ability to incorporate total cost of ownership into architecture recommendations, including cloud consumption, model inference and training costs, software licensing, vendor costs, implementation effort, ongoing support, operational complexity, and modernization benefits.
Experience applying FinOps practices, cloud-cost governance, usage forecasting, and cost-performance optimization when evaluating architecture changes.
Experience comparing the cost, value, risk, and long-term maintainability of custom-built, vendor-provided, open-source, and managed AI services.
Experience with AI model gateways, Model Context Protocol, agent-to-agent communication, AI evaluation platforms, or enterprise AI observability tools.
Experience developing AI reference architectures, reusable components, enterprise standards, or AI governance controls.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer, Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer, or a comparable architecture or AI certification.
Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks and architecture-governance practices.
Experience leading distributed internal, vendor, and consulting teams.
Job Overview
This position develops and maintains high-level designs for overall logical and technical IT architecture. Employees in this role provide leadership, strategic decision-making, and guidance within technical disciplines, responding to disruptive technologies and solving unique and complex problems. Individuals facilitate and orchestrate the delivery of targeted business outcomes through technical decisions. Leaders in this job serve as top-level experts and visionaries in the development of roadmaps, strategy, and design for assigned technology areas.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Works with business partners to analyze strategy and trends to define the requirements, principles, and models that guide technology decisions
- Communicates and enforces technology standards with business partners
- Understands industry trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies
- Drives digital innovation and develops roadmaps through new technologies and approaches to fulfill strategic business plans
- Defines high-level migration plans to address gaps in current state
- Coaches, mentors, and leads technical subject matters experts to enable and drive consistency across technology architectures
- Designs and owns governance, assurance, and standards activities for enterprise technology architecture compliance
- Oversees and facilitates the evaluation, risk assessment, selection, and design of hardware and software technology and product standards
- Delivers technology architecture artifacts, possibly including reference architectures or concepts of operation
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
- High School Grad / GED
- Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
- Experience: 6+ years
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree
NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members.
Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Information Technology
Organization: NextEra Energy Resources, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable
NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.
NextEra Energy and provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com, providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you.
NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies.
Nearest Major Market: Palm Beach
Nearest Secondary Market: Miami
Date: Oct 29, 2026
Location(s): Juno Beach, FL, US, 33408
Company: NextEra Energy
Requisition ID: 96740
NextEra Energy Resources is one of America’s largest wholesale electricity generators, harnessing diverse energy sources to power progress. We deliver tailored energy solutions that fuel economic growth, strengthen communities, and help customers achieve their energy goals. Ready to make a lasting impact? Take the next step in your career with us!
Position Specific Description
The Principal IT Architect will serve as the senior technical leader for applications and platforms supporting NEET Transmission and NEER Development. This role will partner with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Data Governance, Cloud Infrastructure, business stakeholders, and delivery teams to define and execute technology modernization strategies.
The successful candidate will translate enterprise technology direction into practical roadmaps, reference architectures, engineering standards, and scalable solutions. This individual will lead through technical expertise and influence, guide the organization toward an AI-first future, and establish the architecture, engineering practices, and governance needed to deliver secure, reliable, and production-ready AI-enabled solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Define current-state, target-state, and transition architectures for the NEET Transmission and NEER Development technology portfolios.
Develop and execute modernization roadmaps that improve scalability, reliability, cybersecurity, supportability, and cost efficiency.
Serve as the primary liaison with Enterprise Architecture and ensure portfolio solutions align with enterprise strategies, standards, and approved technology patterns.
Provide architecture leadership for complex initiatives involving transmission planning, interconnection, renewable development, engineering analysis, modeling, analytics, and related business processes.
Lead solution design across application, integration, API, data, cloud, infrastructure, security, machine learning, and generative AI domains.
Establish reusable reference architectures, design patterns, architecture decision records, and technical standards.
Evaluate legacy applications and recommend appropriate rehost, replatform, refactor, replace, rebuild, or retire strategies.
Provide expert guidance for AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform infrastructure architectures, including compute, storage, networking, identity, security, observability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.
Lead the end-to-end architecture and delivery of machine learning and generative AI solutions from use-case evaluation and prototyping through production deployment, monitoring, support, and lifecycle management.
Define scalable patterns for retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, embeddings, multi-agent architectures, model orchestration, tool use, function calling, and enterprise-system integration.
Establish formal AI evaluation and validation practices, including prompt evaluation, model-quality testing, grounding and citation validation, safety guardrails, hallucination mitigation, human-in-the-loop controls, and measurable acceptance criteria.
Establish Responsible AI architecture practices addressing security, privacy, data governance, explainability, auditability, model risk, human accountability, and regulatory requirements.
Advance MLOps and LLMOps practices for model and prompt versioning, deployment, evaluation, monitoring, observability, governance, incident management, and performance optimization.
Guide development teams in the use of AI-assisted engineering, agentic development workflows, and AIDLC practices while establishing appropriate quality gates for AI-generated code, tests, designs, and documentation.
Lead architecture reviews, technical evaluations, proofs of concept, vendor assessments, and build-versus-buy decisions.
Communicate architecture options, risks, costs, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to technical teams, business partners, and senior leadership.
Mentor developers, engineers, architects, and technical leads while providing direction to vendors, consultants, and delivery partners.
Build AI architecture and engineering capability across the team through reusable patterns, technical standards, coaching, demonstrations, and communities of practice.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
10+ years of progressive experience in information technology, software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, application development, or related disciplines.
Demonstrated experience leading architecture for complex enterprise applications, platforms, or modernization programs.
Expert-level knowledge of AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Experience designing secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-effective cloud or hybrid-cloud architectures.
Strong knowledge of application architecture, integration patterns, APIs, data architecture, cybersecurity, and modern software-engineering practices.
Experience developing architecture roadmaps and translating target-state designs into executable delivery plans.
Demonstrated hands-on experience designing and delivering production-grade machine learning and generative AI solutions in an enterprise environment.
Deep understanding of transformer models, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, agent frameworks, multi-agent architectures, and model orchestration.
Hands-on experience with one or more enterprise AI platforms, including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Google Vertex AI, Gemini, Azure OpenAI, or comparable services.
Experience with vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, orchestration layers, enterprise data grounding, and AI observability.
Experience architecting production agent systems using tool integration, function calling, context engineering, enterprise APIs, and controlled access to business systems.
Experience applying MLOps and LLMOps practices, including model, prompt, and configuration versioning; automated evaluation; deployment; monitoring; governance; and lifecycle management.
Experience establishing formal evaluation and validation processes for AI solutions, including prompt evaluation, hallucination mitigation, safety guardrails, quality thresholds, and human validation.
Strong understanding of Responsible AI, AI security, data privacy, model and vendor risk, explainability, auditability, least-privilege access, and human accountability.
Experience integrating AI solutions with enterprise applications, data platforms, APIs, identity services, and cloud infrastructure.
Experience partnering with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Data Governance, Cloud Infrastructure, and other specialized technology teams.
Ability to lead technical teams and influence decisions without direct reporting authority.
Strong business-facing communication, facilitation, and executive-presentation skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in the utility, energy, critical-infrastructure, or another regulated industry.
Experience supporting transmission planning, interconnection, renewable-energy development, engineering, modeling, or analytical platforms.
Demonstrated ability to incorporate total cost of ownership into architecture recommendations, including cloud consumption, model inference and training costs, software licensing, vendor costs, implementation effort, ongoing support, operational complexity, and modernization benefits.
Experience applying FinOps practices, cloud-cost governance, usage forecasting, and cost-performance optimization when evaluating architecture changes.
Experience comparing the cost, value, risk, and long-term maintainability of custom-built, vendor-provided, open-source, and managed AI services.
Experience with AI model gateways, Model Context Protocol, agent-to-agent communication, AI evaluation platforms, or enterprise AI observability tools.
Experience developing AI reference architectures, reusable components, enterprise standards, or AI governance controls.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer, Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer, or a comparable architecture or AI certification.
Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks and architecture-governance practices.
Experience leading distributed internal, vendor, and consulting teams.
Job Overview
This position develops and maintains high-level designs for overall logical and technical IT architecture. Employees in this role provide leadership, strategic decision-making, and guidance within technical disciplines, responding to disruptive technologies and solving unique and complex problems. Individuals facilitate and orchestrate the delivery of targeted business outcomes through technical decisions. Leaders in this job serve as top-level experts and visionaries in the development of roadmaps, strategy, and design for assigned technology areas.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Works with business partners to analyze strategy and trends to define the requirements, principles, and models that guide technology decisions
- Communicates and enforces technology standards with business partners
- Understands industry trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies
- Drives digital innovation and develops roadmaps through new technologies and approaches to fulfill strategic business plans
- Defines high-level migration plans to address gaps in current state
- Coaches, mentors, and leads technical subject matters experts to enable and drive consistency across technology architectures
- Designs and owns governance, assurance, and standards activities for enterprise technology architecture compliance
- Oversees and facilitates the evaluation, risk assessment, selection, and design of hardware and software technology and product standards
- Delivers technology architecture artifacts, possibly including reference architectures or concepts of operation
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
- High School Grad / GED
- Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
- Experience: 6+ years
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree
NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members.
Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Information Technology
Organization: NextEra Energy Resources, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable
NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.
NextEra Energy and provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com, providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you.
NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies.
Nearest Major Market: Palm Beach
Nearest Secondary Market: Miami
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What Florida Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in senior IT architect jobs across Florida.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related technical field
- Ten or more years of progressive IT experience including enterprise-level architecture design
- Hands-on expertise with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Proficiency in enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF, Zachman, or SABSA
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and communicating architecture decisions to executives
- Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or TOGAF 9 Certified preferred
Senior IT Architect Jobs in Florida: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a senior it architect in Florida?
Florida does not require a state-issued license for senior it architects, so the path runs through education, credentials, and experience. Most employers expect a bachelor's degree in computer science or information systems followed by years of hands-on infrastructure or software engineering work. Earning a vendor-neutral credential like TOGAF or a cloud-platform certification strengthens your candidacy considerably. Florida's large defense, healthcare, and financial services sectors reward architects who can demonstrate enterprise-scale project ownership.
How much do senior IT architects make in Florida?
Senior IT architects in Florida earn a median of about $132,800 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $81,500 for the lowest 10% to over $184,680 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire senior it architects in Florida?
Employers hiring senior it architects in Florida right now include NextEra Energy, Boston Consulting, and NCH, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Florida's concentration of defense contractors, regional bank headquarters, and major hospital networks means consistent demand for architects who understand regulated-industry compliance requirements.
Which Florida cities have the most senior it architect jobs?
Miami, Naples, and Juno Beach account for the largest share of senior it architect openings in Florida. Miami draws heavily from financial services and multinational headquarters activity, Tampa's cybersecurity and healthcare technology sectors sustain steady demand, and Orlando's presence of defense contractors and hospitality technology firms rounds out the distribution.
Are there remote senior it architect jobs in Florida?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 20% of senior it architect openings tied to Florida are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how design-and-strategy-heavy this role is at the senior level. Work focused on cloud migration planning, solution design documentation, and stakeholder advisory tends to remain fully remote, while roles involving data center oversight or on-site vendor coordination typically require some in-person presence.
How can I get hired as a senior it architect in Florida with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving laterally from a senior software engineer, systems administrator, or infrastructure lead role into an associate or solutions architect position. Florida's large healthcare systems such as AdventHealth and HCA Florida, along with defense primes like Lockheed Martin and L3Harris, run rotational technology programs and internal promotion pipelines that surface early-career architects. Building a portfolio of documented architecture decisions and earning an entry-level cloud certification gives candidates a clear credential to point to when applying.
Where can I find and apply to senior it architect jobs in Florida?
You can find and apply to senior it architect jobs in Florida on Migrate Mate, which lists current Florida openings from employers actively hiring. Search for roles that match your experience level, specialization, and preferred location, then apply directly to the ones that fit.
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